Yann Kersalé
Yann Kersalé Yann Kersalé
(c) Université de Bordeaux
| Type | Artist Male |
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| URLs | Artist's page Wikipedia |
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| Award | 1995 | Nominated Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Kulturministerium | France |
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| Solo exhibition | 2014 - 2015 | L’Espace des 4 Eléments | Exhibition at L’Atelier Renault, Champs-Elysées | Paris, France | |
| Solo exhibition | 2013 | Hymnes-Mers-Ions | Océanopolis | Brest, France | |
| Solo exhibition | 2012 | Le Pic en Rose, Pic du midi, Midi-Pyrénnées | Pink October, campaign against Breast Cancer | Pic du midi, Midi-Pyrénnées, France | |
| Solo exhibition | 2012 | A des Nuits Lumière, la ville / la nuit / la mer | Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc pour la culture | Landerneau |
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| Torre Agbar | Barcelona | ||
| Sony Center | Berlin |
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| Monography | 1990 | Collection Archipels | Yann Kersalé: Lumière matière | Jean-Louis Pradel | 978-2-908474-01-5 | Paris | ||||||
| Monography | 2003 | Norma | Yann Kersalé: Light for Landmarks / Structures lumière | Jean-Paul Curnier, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Monique Sicard and Eric Germain | 978-2-909283-82-1 | Paris |
Awards
Paris, France
In 2011, a reviewer in Le Figaro called him "a passionate fan of chiaroscuro" who loves to plunge viewers into an "abyss" of total darkness to maximise their perception of the surprising narrative fantasies he constructs with light.
Research and teaching
Paris, France
He produced an interior lighting scheme for the Francilien commuter trains, and in 2010 the Jallum lighting units for Baccarat, rechargeable and dimmable LED lights in cut crystal cylinders on anodised aluminium bases for indoor or outdoor use
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Projects
Saint-Nazaire, France
Nuit des docks, Saint-Nazaire, 1991. Night-time illumination of the docks, including a submarine base, in bright colours determined by analysis of the activity during the day. The project, commissioned by the mayor, transformed the ugly military installation and site of unpleasant memories, which had been slated for demolition, into a civic asset. Kersalé cited a grandmother saying, "I would never have been able to imagine such a beautiful thing from such a horror."
Born
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Education
Quimper, Frankreich
Kersalé spent part of his childhood in the Breton port town of Douarnenez. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Quimper in 1978.
Places of work / studios
Tréboul, France Île Tristan, Rosmeur, Vincennes, France
Yann Kersalé: »Night is a “dark material” in which I scope a natural or urban landscape with all its patterns and forms with its multiple variations of human activities or its absences, as pulses going faster and calming down, until a slow pace or a stop…Its extravagances, potentials and silences.
My way of tackling this “dark material” is the “manière noire” (literally: “dark style”--mezzotint) – used in printmaking process, it’s not digging to create the black, but revealing in the dark white tones, powerful grays, forms and composition. I don’t turn off the light, I make my own what already exists and I use the dark as a partner in my night vision crimes.« http://www.ykersale.com/en/bio/
2.Dezember 2015
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Mer veille | 2013 | Yann Kersalé | |
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Théâtre Temps | 1993 | Yann Kersalé | |